We started this project with just two people Dizzitt Gardan and I (Tonden Ockay). We have been friends for over 25 years ever since high school. Dark Sun was the D&D campaign we played the most. I would have to say we played it anywhere from one to three times a week for three to four years solid.

We both have all the AD&D 2nd Dark Sun books and have read and studied on the world for years. The problem is that our old group just can’t get together like we used to back in high school. So over the last few years Dizzitt and I have been learning how to make and use custom content with NWN. We are both at a point where we feel that we could bring the world of Dark Sun to life using NWN.

To start we searched through the Vault collecting all the different Dark Sun content out there. Then we looked it all over and only kept what we felt was of high enough quality.

The Dark Sun CCC was one of the haks that we felt had what we were looking for. So we split it up into individual haks to make them easier to work with, pass back and forth, and download.

Individual Haks

· Tilesets - needed for the world of Dark Sun

· Placeables.hak

· Items.hak

· Creatures.hak

· Loadscreens, Portraits, Skies.hak

· Visual Effects.hak

Currently Working On

So at this point and time we are working on adding to and improving on the above haks. Everyone sends an updated hak of the work they have done once a week. This helps to make sure we keep moving forward on the project as well as to insure we don't lose a lot of work if something was to happen.

There are five of us working on this project. That said we all have jobs, school, family, and other real life things that has to come first. There for, we only get to work on the project in our free time. We are always looking for people who would like to help bring this world to NWN. If you would like to help just contact me and we will see how you might be able to help with this project.

For The Future

We would like to create all the key points of interest in the Tyr Region and use them to make a PW.

Then later at some point we would like to create modules and bring the flip book adventures to life.

Updated 9-10-16 at 11:05pm cleaned up the hak a little, fixed the sunrise to rise in the east, and zipped it up to make it more download friendly.

NWN Dark Sun Desert Tileset - I just uploaded the custom Desert Tileset hak that I'm currently working on for Dark Sun. Which I just started working on last week, so there isn't much done yet, but I thought I would share what I have done so far with the community. It has custome made uneven ground and raised ground which looks like hills/slopes. Upload Date 10-3-2017

Dizzitt Gardan (online name) is a real life friend of mine and we used to play Dark Sun 2nd Edition AD&D a lot back in the 1990's. We both were BIG fans of the campaign setting. Dizzitt Gardan seen that I had been learning a lot about NWN custom content. So he started asking me questions and started working on NWN custom content as well. For him Dark Sun is the only world he cares to play. One could say he is obsessed with the Dark Sun Campaign setting. A few weeks back he asked if I would be willing to work with him on building the world of Dark Sun using NWN. We talked about it for a few days and then began working on all the things that will be needed to make a Dark Sun Campaign setting world.

Dizzitt Gardan and I download the Dark Sun CCC to use as a starting point. We are currently working on the following.

Tilesets - needed for the world of Dark Sun

Placeables.hak

Items.hak

Creatures.hak

Once we have the things above completed we will have to learn how to make adjustments to Races and Classes.

We would like to create all the key points of interest in the Tyr Region and use them to make a PW. Then later at some point we would like to create modules and bring the flip book adventures to life.

If others would like to help that would be great if not then I guess just the two of us will just work on it.

So at this point in time Yes Draygoth we are working on a Dark Sun Project.

I am a big fan of the Darksun setting. Played 2nd edition as well. Loved the Troy Denning books. If you guys need any help I may have some free time. There is a hak I believe it was called athasian nights you may want to check out. It would need an overhaul but may have some thing you guys could use. Also there is a hak called psionics I think...

Shouldn´t you guys ask the executives for an own
section?
This project looks quite ambitious to me. But it´s
getting buried to easily under new posts, comments
and content.
Btw, i´m not so sure anymore, but hasn´t Athas
a green sky? Mmh.
Just kidding. Well done. 10
Oh, and you should maintain contact with
Steven James, aka Silverblade the Enchanter.
That guy is an expert! You find him on
facebook, or simply ask Tarot Redhand. He
can help you, i guess.

Silverblade has problems at the moment and can no longer maintain the site "Silverblades Suitcase" which now no longer exists. Other than that I've no idea how I am supposed to help here. I presume you guys are aware of the official site - The Burnt World of Athas?

Thanks for the reply Tarot, yes i heard of that. Hope the good sir is getting
well soon. It´s a shame that his site is gone. It was a valueable ressource.
Arrm, well I thought you could establish the contact, possibly maybe. That´s
why i pointed at you. (in a good way)
Oh yes, the official dark sun HQ. They launched some fancy projects, no doubt,
but since a few years i somehow got the intention that their battery is a little
low.
And thanks for the heads up anyway! :)

I remember playng Dark Sun, many years ago, in the old pc version, it was a great game. Whith NWN, i beleave its possible to do something very real, and far greater, whe now have so many stuff to build, that whe can make almost anything.

Well, maybe its time for me to get out of my cave... I fill like an old dragon, who spent to much time oarding treasure, alone... And now i need to stresh my wings a bit, maybe burn some vilages... i,m kind of hungry.

Just kiding, he he.

1 - Well, first whe need to make contact, mail me and i mail back.

Mi internet at home is very slow, so when i go online i go to a coffe, i,m not experienced in online, comunication, i,ve been a lonner, obssessed to build a gigantic system, where you can build almost any kind of story, my fault!

So i had to make everithing: design, modyfi, project,test etc. I came up whith over 18gb of data, reaching almost every limit of the aurora toolset, and its still amasing , how the system is so stable, and all as been working togheter, kind of lucky too.

whe will find a way to easely comunicate, and interact, i,m sure of it.

2 - I need to know, every detail, about the variety of landscapes, caves and dungeons, a list of creatures, and placeables, so i can build the hacks. i have already dounloaded all your hacks, and started to studdy them. theyr already a good start. This way whe can chose the widest tipes of landscapes (so the players will not get bored), and what creatures are needed, and so. Using the contest stuuf was a great choice.

Scripting is not my forte, i will be only usefull on building hacks, and making areas in a module, testing, etc.

3 - Dark Sun, is one of my prefered desert themes, a bit like (dune movie), or star wars (tatooine).

Well, lets just build and create this world, as he deserves it. Reality, variety and quality, should be our compass, may the desert swallous hall!

Next month, I´ll start to upload my projects on a weekly basis.
I can hold that pace for a year or so.
Think of it as some kind of umbrella. You have the time to
work at your projects without hurry, while i keep the pack
busy. And hungry!

Anithing you think is usefull for a start, i need to get a visual feeling of the world, so we can make something diferent, the sceneries more like, those pictures im finding in the web, ive seen many modules, all this years, but sadlly moust of them look all the same. it wood be wise wen someone sais "look at that tower", you should see a big golden tower, not a small tower.

I beleave whe should start with tilesets, whithout them, theres no module, without a proper module, theres no world. whe cant build our world. I already ave an idea, which tile3sets, can be a start, maibe build first the 7 cities of Athas, some wilderness arround, and later dungeons, and aquifers?

I think all tillesets must match the yelow and orange stone tone and desert. My system is like a nwn enciclopedia of landscapes (100), 12000 placeables, and 3000 creatures. whe can remove anithing from them, retexturaze mudify and so on. whe can make it.

the big golden towers, can be made, towers from star wars, retextured in to arabian textures, same to tilesets. things must make you fell there.

Jumping at it with great courage and motivation, but without
a plan or at least a rough direction, I did the same with
my sound override, leads to burnout. Just saying.
Collect your images. How does a red sand area looks,
how the salt flats and so on. I can help you out with that.
I got these images handy. All of them.
But you need a worldmap, even if it is made with windows
paint and looks kindergarten style. Do that first. I can turn
it into a fancy map. No problem. But without map, and
please don´t come up with that official crap, you work
if futile, cause you don´t have a direction.
What "could" be possible is to start with a bunch of
smaller tilesets, that you can implant everywhere.
An example:
- Wezer underground hive
- Mountain spider tunnels, webbed of course
- Scarab/Antloid hive
- Scrab tunnels
Look, give me the time to uploade my pictures,
ok? Take a look, then start working.
But ey, who am I. I´m just doing the sounds and
the icons.
@Mondego
Relax, Colonel! I´ll offer my complete sound override
for help. But not yet. I´d like to show the guys here at
the vault, that this will be something cool and that
it is worth their time. We talk about that again, when
enough of my projects have seen daylight.

I want City States (Cities) to have very Large Tall walls and Grand City Gates. As for the City of Tyr I want the Golden Tower and Ziggurat to be Large Bold and sand out above all. The Arena will need to be grand as well. All these things are key poinst to the City of Tyr. Also there needs to be no less then three different building groups (Rich, Common, Poor).

I have taken T0R0's Rural addon tileset combined with the standard rural tileset and made a new tileset. Then I have reskined the ground to sand and did away with the 3d grass. I then went tile by tile using GMax and took out all the weeds and trees.

I stick to my part of the project, so don´t regard
this as interference.
Tonden, don´t move away from the vault.
Every playerworld/server has an own forum,
usually with a few people hanging around,
telling each other stupid shit. Like this:
"Ey! I´m a DM, you know?"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Me too!"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Ey! I introduced the great war machines to my players!"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Cool!"
"Yeah!"
You may jump now to the first line of the conversation.
Discussion, even if controversial, is good and
nessessary. People shall see that this baby is
alive. Stay here. Post here.
People visit & roam the vault frequently. If
you dust off, you project will be buried and
forgotten within two months. No one
remembers it, while you hang around at
your forum, with secret guilds, dm guilds,
houswife guilds and zero logins. That
mistake made dozens of servers before.
There´s no need to repeat it.
Again: Stay here, post here. Post screenies,
ideas for prestige classes, spells, maybe
some monster info´s, what happened
to area XYZ and so on.
Just my two cents.

I understand what your saying Time Bandit. That said I don't think right here on the project page is the way to show we are active. I say this only because once this falls off the front page people will not see this unless they come across it in a search.

So if we want to show how active we are to everyone on the Vault, then we all should be posting on the Vault forums under our NWWN The Dark Sun forum page I made for the project. Because every time a post is made on that forum it gets bumped back to the top.

I could make this project page or the forum page our hub for all the links that I was going to put on our website home page.

Good. So be it.
Maybe it´s useful to modify the first post at your project
page and keep it up to date with fresh links. No
extensive search, or scroll down, no digging your way
through 50 gigs of content. Quick and easy, but needs
daily maintenance.
...and you should add your project logo again
to your signature. It´s like a commercial and
gets immediatly recognized by everyone that
had something to do with DS in his life.

Time bandit is right, i saw many sites, wen i was colecting custum stuff, not found in the vault, desapear from the map, because they isolated demselves, in theyr page, and stoped anouncing, theyr work, or appear in the front page.

Maybe it should be on both sides, yes, its a simple sujestion.

and there is not mutch people arround anymore, at least, is my imprerssion. Tolking here about our issues, dificulties and needs, may atract some modelers and nwn lovers, to our cause. I already made this my cause to. It start to look like the old times foruns.

Im not grandstanding, and tolking crap. I like to express myself, what i fell, what i like, what i think is important, and especialy listen to you, learn and share! If people dont care is the same for me, persons some times misanderstandme. You can se the caracter of a person, for what e does and feel, and not for what e says. Its natural i want to know you, and you should know me to, and share impressions. It whould be nice to live near you, but some thousand miles aparts us. and beleav me, here i dont have almoust a living soul to talk, i llive in the country(mountains, and very isolated.). And i am human.

Im not trying to sell my product here, all that stuff was made by many people, i just strugled to assemble what i found best in a system where you have almoust everything at your fingertips.

This way is like an enciclupedia, of 100, diferent building areas, covering almost every region i migth think of, 12000 usefull placeables, 900 loadscreens (moust of them D&D), many music, 3000 creatures, etc.

Well, mutch work whe can use, and whe will not have to do, i just want to share, im not imposing anithing.

And for what? If you have everithing in one place, its very ease to extract, what you need, plus many bugs fixed, armonized many stuff, etc

My main 3 goals in nwn where:

1 - preserve and find every quality stuff, i could find, in the vault, and in those sites, or they would be lost forever. Remember the vault migration, where many stuuf add been lost, y myself add some of my files broken, now theyr here again, whith all the stuff i collected, in those lost sites. They whould have gon forever lost, and i still cant imagine, the terrible priceless amount of hacks, that have been lost at many homes, because many offended people, for theyr lack of feedback, moral support, bad treatment, or afection, they never post theyr works.

2 - I gave up fun, and area building, even after my participation in some pw projects, to focus on preserving data, and build a system.

3 - Making stuff so others can have fun.

Now my project is finished, il move on.

Dont think im offended, or to sensitive, just clearing some needed points. Moust people, makes the mystake, of thinking, i think this or that, that is not the case.

I'm 100% behind this project. I don't play other games and I'm not even playing NWN. All my free time has been and will keep being put into NWN custom content.

I'm looking at using the TNO High Castle for the outer City walls of Tyr. Which is why I'm working on a Grand Gate for the TNO High Castle walls. Here is a screenshot of what I have so far, do you think? Be honest I want the best for this project.

@ Mondego
You´re right unfortunatly, the vault has entered some kind of stasis.
It hurts me to say that, but that´s the way it is. Many people log in
during the day, but don´t participate in the forums. Why? I do not
understand.
I hope that, if someone holds the torch up long enough, that the
vault starts blooming again. That´s why I´m uploading so much.
There are enough old mutts here, who drop in frequently, take
a look around, "Oh, it´s you again!" and log out. It´s only a
matter of time, until they disappear entirely. If no new projects
pop up, they will go.
That must be prevented at all costs.
@ Tonden
If I remember that right MGSkaggs made a desert superset.
There´s a very cool and huge wall included. You might
take a look at it.
I also recommend to take a look at roman architecture, also
at Hitler´s "World Capitol City Germania". Huge buildings.
I also added some links to sandal & sword movies. Not the
cheesy ones. You should take the time and watch them.
EDIT:
A few words about fame, voting and all that. Look, don´t
even think about it. Build for the projects sake and don´t
fish for compliments. I remember posts, where people
complained that their work isn´t commented, voted, or
downloaded. They have the intention that everything was
futile. With the result that they stopped uploading, or
creating new content. Others uploaded frequently, but
they nearly were the only ones. Same thing here. They
stopped working. "Who am I? The fuck!ng welfare army?
I´m not doing this anymore!"
I´d say it is simply a question of good manners.
Even if a project is not my cup of tea, it´s a piece
of cake to say:" Looks good, man. Go on!" Just a little
feedback. It´s like oil for an old, rusty machine. Got
the intention we need a lot of oil. Well, let´s get it on!

Tonden, the dor is fine and similar to some images. maybe the stone of course should be changed to desert like, and sand on the ground.

What i ever missed on that set was always a big door.

Bandit, your wonderfull images, are giving me what i ned, to make the areas. Im duplicating the placeholder landscape, that makes more natural places, then the basic nwn sets, and came up whith 9 tilesets, 5, i already have, added more 4 desert sets, all desert. After testing, i will send to you, next week. I need to find betther landscape textures, so they can blend togheter in those 3d surfaces. Do you know any good free 3d texture sites i can visit?

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The caracteristics of this set, created by sen and developed by Merrycsdad, is that you shouls always use 2 textures, one for the ground and another for the walls.

the one on the ground should be very smoth, or will repeat itself to much in the landscape, that is not the case of the walls.

The itp pallete, only as the main building part for the terrain, i dont know to manipulate itp paletes, shame on me.

Tonden you know hou to add models, assigning them to the itp pallete, as grups, and custum? that should be made on the plain terrain.

Remember, and i think you know that, you should not pass over 9000 files per hack, or the tolset starts to make errors, and crash.

thanks mate, im sending ideas tru images to tonden, so whe can make the base core tilesets and the placeables needed in Tyr city, and for desert setlements and ruins.

Please let me take care of the base core tilesets, so whe can move and chose, what whe want and what whe don want, or doesnt work.

Im 100%, dedicated now, to this project, any stuuf i come by, will only be here, from now, that includes the new 4 tiles, i will send images of it and later, the 9 sets.

then i will start to build the main core of tir, using atlantis set, tower stadium, and zigurat, already have idias for it, i just need to finish placeholder set.

the setlements for the city of tyr, must be babylon, and arabian nights, whe may chose for now, tu use them apart, building and combining the diferent areas of the city, and later, migrate tiles to atlantis, or to babilon.

Another option is to migrate, the elevation funcion of atlantis to make the zigurat, and arena to, all explain the idea later, to babilon.

Adding things from arabian nights and tno high castle wall, and medieval high door, is a must, but i beleave whe will have a lot of struglle, me and tondem, so sort that set. but at least whe will try, and i think whe will sucede, or whe will have to use those sets apart.

I started checking this website a couple days before this module was announced, and so far it's been looking great. I hope that once you feel comfortable with the state of the project you release a small demo or a video showing off what's done so far.

I just uploaded the custom NWN Dark Sun Desert Tileset hak that I'm currently working on. I just started working on it last week so I'm really just getting started on it. But I thought I would share what I have done so far with the community. It has uneven ground and raised ground which looks like hills/slopes